OCTOBER 4

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

IPeter 3:12 

“For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and His ears are open to their prayers…..”

IICor.9:8

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:”

Mark 11:24

“Therefore I say to you, Whatever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.”

IICor 3:5

“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency  is of God.”

Ps 103:5

“Who satisfies your mouth with good things: so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”

Philippians 4:19

 “But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus”

This month we will read choices from Charles Spurgeon’s (known affectionately as the “prince of preachers”)  devotional, “Beside Still Waters.”   It’s no secret that this world system is getting more evil by the day.  We have to stand strong in the Lord and look to Him more than ever to get through, and to be guided through, what is in the future……..known and allowed  by Him alone…..as well as whatever personal things we are experiencing in our lives.

PASTOR SPURGEON:

Many people imagine that God has a great deal to do with their prayer closet but nothing to do with their pantry.  If this were so, life would be dreadful.  We should see as much of the Lord’s hand on the kitchen table as on the communion table.  The same love that spreads the table when we commemorate our Savior’s dying love also spreads the table to provide our daily bread.  Learn to see God in everything. Learn to praise Him for all that you have.

It may be that you have suffered a financial loss.  Dear friend, the Lord can restore your loss.  When Job lost everything , God readily restored his losses (Job 42:10).

Yes, you say, “but that was a remarkable case.”  Still we have a remarkable God, and He still works wonders.

Consider the matter, for it was remarkable.  Job lost all his property.  It was equally remarkable that he got it all back.  Surely, if God can scatter, He can gather. If God could scatter Job’s large holdings, He could, with equal ease, restore it.

We see God’s destructive power.  We do not, however, always see His building power.  Yet it is more consistent with God’s nature to give and not to take.  It is more like Him to caress rather than to chastise.

I think that it was a strange work with God to take all of Job’s property and bring him to deep distress.  When the Lord again enriched His servant Job, however, He was doing what He delights to do.  God’s happiness is most clearly seen when He is distributing the bounty of His love.

Can you look at your own circumstances in this light?  It is more likely that God will bless and restore rather than chasten.  He can restore your wealth, your health, and much more.

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